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Mongrel Media DVDs and Videos
Selected titles
All are available as DVD or VHS Video.
Meet Kristen Thomson
Saturday December, 11 from 2 to 3 pm.
autographing copies of her new DVD I, Claudia
The perfect gift now on DVD!
I, Claudia
A film by Chris Abraham & Kristen Thomson
I, Claudia is an adaptation of the hit one-woman play starring Kristen Thomson.
Claudia is an “official” pre-teen, still reeling from her parents'
divorce. Her father is getting re-married, she has a science fair project coming
due, and she is in the physical and emotional throes of puberty. Claudia speaks
to us from inside the boiler room of her school where she stores all the things
that are secret and dear to her. Incensed and incredulous at the adult world
around her, she is irrepressibly funny about it at the same time. More...
Films by Michael Ondaatje
For the first time ever, Michael Ondaatjeäs films are being released on dvd. This
special collectoräs disc contains three seminal pieces of work created and shot in
the 70äs by Canadaäs award-winning and internationally recognized author. The
Clinton Special: A Film About The Farm Show (1974) chronicles a group of actors
who in 1972 went into an Ontario farming community to build a play of what they saw
and learned. In Sons of Captain Poetry (1970) Ondaatje captures the work and
spirit of bpNichol. Carry on Crime and Punishment (1970), Ondaatjeäs whimsical
slapstick 'docu-drama' follows a couple of crooked Canadian Poets who try to kidnap
a dog. More...
Bollywood Hollywood
Deepa Mehta
The Story: Rahul is a dashing young millionaire who believes he is "western"
enough to rebel against his mother and grandmother . They are not too keen about
his Caucasian girlfriend Kimberly who, to make matters worse, is a pop star. Before
you can say "karmic intervention," Kimberly dies in a freak accident and
Rahul is devastated. Instead of allowing him to mourn in peace, Rahul's mother sees
the opportunity she's been waiting for. She threatens to call off his sister's wedding
unless he finds himself a "nice Indian girl." Starring Rahul Khanna, Lisa
Ray, Moushumi Chatterjee, Dina Pathak, Kulbushan Kharbanda, Ranjit Chowdhry and Jessica
Paré. More...
Past Perfect
Daniel MacIvor
Past Perfect takes place over two days, two years apart. On an overnight flight
from Halifax to Vancouver, Charlotte finds herself sitting next to the nervous and
seemingly stuffy Cecil. Despite an unpleasant start to their relationship as seatmates,
over the course of the flight Charlotte and Cecil find themselves falling into one
another's lives and in love. Intercut with their meeting is a Saturday two years
later. Starring Rebecca Jenkins, Daniel MacIvor, Marie Brassard, Kathryn MacLellan
and Maury Chaykin. More..
Fidel
Estela Bravo
Fidel Castro is one of the most influential and controversial figures
of our time. Rarely are Americans given a chance to see inside the
world of this socialist leader.
This new documentary film by Estela Bravo offers a unique opportunity
to view the man through exclusive interviews with Castro himself,
historians, public figures
and close friends, with footage from the Cuban State archives. More...
Burnt Money (Plata quemada)
Marcelo Pineyro
Burnt Money is the steamy Argentinean hit film about an infamous heist gone horribly
wrong. Set in Argentina in 1965, Burnt Money is based on the true story about
the ruthless bank-robbing duo, Nene and Angel . Everyone calls them 'Los Mellizos'
(the twins), but they are actually lovers: lethal, thieving lovers. It's the story
of a doomed relationship, confined to four rooms where intense passion and violence
push the extremes. They flee from Argentina across the border to Uruguay after a
large-scale hold-up that turns bloody. With the cops closing in, the two lovers must
confront their demons to survive. Starring Leonardo Sbaraglia and Eduardo Noriega.
More...
Winter Sleepers (Winterschläfer)
Tom Tykwer
Laura, Marco, Rebecca and Rene are four young people from the city spending the winter
in a remote alpine town. One afternoon, Rene seizes the opportunity to take a spin
through the mountains. But the visibility of the winter roads is deceptive. Without
ever realizing what he has done, Rene causes a car to crash, leaving the farmer's
young daughter seriously injured. Soon after this strange accident, mysterious, almost
hallucinatory events begin to unfold. As these events engulf the characters, intertwining
their lives in unexpected ways, the shimmering expanses of snow provide the perfect
backdrop for their increasingly unpredictable emotions. More...
After Life
Kore-eda Hirokazu
If you had to choose your single happiest memory, what would it be? In After Life,
the recently deceased are asked this question. Aided by guides who help them sift
through their past, they are given three days to come up with an answer. Once a decision
is reached, the guides recreate this happiest of memories and capture it on film,
giving the deceased a very personal heaven they will enter for eternity. With exquisite
beauty, After Life shows us that while the memories people choose may seem
simple, be it a first kiss or a last cigarette, their meaning lies in the sense they
give of living in the moment and feeling truly and fully alive. And while these memories
may seem simple, deciding upon them is no easy task. More...
Nico and Dani
Cesc Gay
In the tradition of Beautiful Thing and Wild Reeds, Nico and Dani
is a portrait of adolescent experience set against the blazing sun and azure sea
of a small seaside town near Barcelona. During ten days of freedom, the two best
friends discover love, sex, jealousy and disenchantment and thus cross that vague
border separating adolescence from manhood. Nico and Dani successfully captures
that moment between the stifling safety of childhood and the invigorating terror
of adulthood. Deftly directed by Cesc Gay, Nico and Dani is arguably the finest and
the most honest coming-of-age drama in recent memory. More...
Signs and Wonders
Jonathan Nossiter
Signs and Wonders by Jonathan Nossiter brings to the screen a digital visual
extravaganza starring Charlotte Rampling, Stellan Starsgård and Deborah Kara
Unger. Alec , an American by adoption and his wife, Marjorie, an American of Greek
origin, live with their two children in Athens. Both Alec's business life and his
tender relationship with his daughter are guided by a playful but deeply felt need
to interpret the smallest details of the world as significant.Under the influence
of powerful signs and premonitions, Alec allows himself to veer in and out of a love
affair with a colleague, Katherine, eventually leaving his family and returning to
America with his lover. Once there, however, the same belief system urges him back
home for one final attempt to win back his family. But his new quest is endangered
by the presence of a political activist, Andreas, in his family's life. Andreas becomes
the victim of a series of incidents, each one more threatening than the last. More...
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